Merry Christmas!

Well, like all of you, I don't have much to say since I just saw you...

But it was great to Skype. I loved seeing everyone and getting to talk to you all. :) It was the best Christmas ever! The music video was seriously the BEST present I could have ever gotten!! :) 

Well, I wish I had more to talk about but nothing has happened this week... Sorry!!

I hope you have a great week! 

I like the finer things in life......

(Read in a British accent)

Well, this week has just been grand. I had the wonderful Christmas conference and received great gifts. Thank you very much, they are verrry appreciated.

But Friday was a day that will never be forgotten! This is where my newly found life begins. I only like the finer things in life now. I only do ritzy things and only enjoy the best of things. On Friday night we went to the most glorious restaurant. It is called Three Sixty. The restaurant is at the top of a hotel on the Ohio River and it turns in a circle. It is marvelous and the view is spectacular! These are just a few of the nicer things that I have done now.

I hope you all have a wonderful week.

Merry Christmas.

Feliz Navidad! ( I speak Spanish now, don't you know)

Love

Sister Shaw

Together for 6 more weeks!!

Wow. Another transfer has flown by! We had a great week to finish it off! :) We had a lot more success this week. Heavenly Father has just really been looking out for Sister Brown and I. We are so blessed. We are also blessed to stay here another 6 weeks! I am so excited to spend Christmas and new years with Sister Brown and here in Lake side park! :) 

The miracle of the week:

This is more of a funny one but great none the less! 

So on Friday or Saturday I got my package from you mom, with M&M's. I was so excited and I put them in the car to munch on while we drive. The car is where we spend most of time because we have to drive a lot to get places. So I put them in there and totally forgot that it wsa going to be fast sunday yesterday. So fast sunday came and the M&M's jsut sat and stared at me ALL DAY! I was so sad that I could eat them but I was not going to let Satan's temptation get the best of me. So I made it to dinner successfully. Keep in mind that we also went and took cookies to come people. Excellent self control if I do say so myself. So I ate a wonderful dinner with my favorite family in the ward when they brought us my favorite thing... dessert! I took one of the small chocolate cookies and died. The miracle is that I didnt actually die! :D no just kidding.... So as Sister Brown was about to take a cookie she noticed something.. a nut. Thats when everything came to a stand still. SHE IS ALLERGIC TO TREE NUTS! (Imagine this next sentence in slow motion) So I slapped the cookie out of her hand! ok... That didnt realy happen but it would have been funny. So Sister Brown couldnt eat the cookie, no dessert for her. So we made it back to our car when I remembered that I had M&M's! So, there it is, a true Christmas miracle! Thank you mother for loving me enough to send M&M's that my companion could eat for dessert yesterday!

Hope you all had a great week! 

I love you! 

Love 

Sister Shaw

Happy Thanksgiving

Well. Just another great week out here in Kentucky! Just living the high life. haha. It has been great. The weather has been wonderful! No snow! lots of rain though which I am perfectly happy with! I am just grateful that my mission president has ever sister companionship in a car! :) 

I hope you all had a great thanksgiving. I had a wonderful dinner with a family. It was yummy and so fun! 

Things are going great here. Sister Brown is AWESOME and we are still having a lot of fun doing the work of the Lord. This is the lord's work. He has a plan for each and every one of us. It is our job to figure it out though! 

Miracle of the week:

We have been teaching a woman who wants to get baptized but her husband wont let her. So every fridaywe go to lunch with her and her husband to soften his heart. Well... it is working because he opened up to us and is going to let us work with him now and THEY BOTH CAME TO CHURCH! 

Miracles seriously can happen! Only by the grace of God!

I hope you all have a great week! 

I love you all!

Well, This has been a fun week. We have been working hard and having fun at the same time. We found 2 new investigators and actually got some members to come teach with us. That was great.

We have a great ward. They work so hard and they are so fun. 

Sister Brown is awesome. We are working hard but also having fun as you can tell from the pictures :) I love being with her. I have just loved being a missionary. Even though this is so hard, it is totally worth it. 

Yesterday I had to give a talk in sacrament meeting about Gratitude and I talked about being grateful in our circumstances. It is hard but totally worth it. That is how we find true joy and happiness. I hit my 15 month mark this week and I was reflecting on what I had done. I began to feel very sad and unaccomplished. I just felt like I was an awful missionary but then I remembered that God has given me my mission for me. He knows exactly what I need and loves me so much. I am so grateful to Him for giving me the mission I need to prepare me for the rest of my life. I need to remember that I have help more people than I know. I have helped many youth and members of the church and I am forever grateful to know them and to work with them. 

I am grateful for my God for loving me enough to cut me down, to hurt me. I know that is for my good. I love my mission. I love those I have the chance to serve. I am blessed and loved.

Have a great thanksgiving week!

I love you! 

love

Sister Shaw

We Laugh we cry we dumpster dive

Man, this has been an interesting week. Lots happened. 

So on Tuesday I got to spend the day in the Northern Kentucky Ward with my Sister Training Leaders. It was so much fun. They are so much fun. :) 

Then on Thursday we had a mission Tour. So a mission tour is when some one comes out and sees our mission. Looks at a what is going on and the work we are doing. So Elder Wilford W. Andersen of the 2nd Quorum of the Seventy came out and spoke to us. It was really cool. I got to see a lot of my old companions and friends :) It was so fun. 

Then on Friday, our sister training leaders called us and asked if we were by the church and we just happened to be, we are never up at the church. So they asked us to check the church for Sister Corbridge's camera because she lost it. So we did. We went all out. We looked everywhere! In every thing! Including the trash cans and dumpster! 

Then on Saturday, one of the sets of Elders had a baptism. We were asked to come and the missionaries in the Lakeside Park Ward (us, and 4 elders) sang When I Am Baptized. So we decided to practice before the baptism. So I played the top hand for us while we sang through it once. Then I decided to play a quick song on the piano before anyone got there and OF COURSE people came, so I played the prelude of the baptism for 40 minutes! hahhaha. It was soooo terrible! But I did play Joeph Smith's 1st prayer, Sweet Hour of Prayer and Nearer My God to Thee without messing up. I am counting the whole experience as a success! :) 

It has been a great week. I love you all! I hope you have a great day! 

love 

Sis Shaw

#aintnorestfortherighteous

#ClimbThatLatter

#Livin'TheHighLife

#DumpsterLivin'4Life

Satan in on the LOOSE

This has been a week to remember!! Holy cow! 

We have had soooo much opposition haha. It is actually kinda funny!

So have been working with a crazy member who has been working up so much drama. She is driving the ward crazy and is driving us crazy. I don'y even know what to do anymore. I just keep praying that Heavenly Father will tell me something to do... 

We also have run into a lot of people that just have not been very nice 

And lastly to top it all off....

WE GOT BED BUGS!!! 

Satan is REAL! He is out to get us. The work is hastening and we will win! No matter what Satan does, HE WILL NEVER WIN! We are going to come out on top! 

#AintNoRestForTheRighteous

#RestWhenIAmDead

#SatanIsGoingDown

#BringItONSatan!

#BgingTheWorldItsTruth